On Oct 10, 2004 at 04:35, Jeff Vian in a soothing rage wrote: >On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 23:21, Harikrishnan M wrote: >> > How do I setup fedora so that when I log into gnome the numlock will be >> > on. I have tried the save session settings and it does not seem to save >> > this option. >> >> This can be done using the setting in your BIOS. The state, at >> power-on, of many such keys are stored in the BIOS data area. > >That is what I thought, but so far it has never worked for me. >Fedora follows the legacy of all RedHat versions I have tried and it >does not honor the bios setting for the numlock key. I live with it but >would rather have it set according to the bios. > >If you can tell me of any other key settings that are in the bios of >most computers I would love to know what ones they are. The bios on all >boards I have ever used only has the numlock key setting. >From the console, no X, all you need is something like the following in /etc/rc.local: INITTY=/dev/tty[1-8] for tty in $INITTY do /usr/bin/setleds -D +num < $tty done If you use KDE, this can be set per user via the KDE Control Centre: Peripherals -> Keyboard -> Numlock on KDE Startup GNOME users are outta luck. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 If you try to please everyone, somebody is not going to like it. 17:16:01 up 104 days, 10:30, 3 users, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00
